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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

” It’s much easier to encourage someone to think like an entrepreneur if they have a track record of innovation and problem-solving. Hire for courage and innovation and be clear from the very first day of new-hire orientation that you really want your new employees to share ideas. What did you learn?

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Beyond Recruitment: N2Growth’s COO Search Solutions Enhance Organizational Performance

N2Growth Blog

N2Growth’s dedicated focus on leader performance, combined with its use of innovative methods to recruit and develop top-tier executives, invariably translates into vastly improved operational outcomes. Enhanced operational efficiency is a critical advantage observed by businesses partnering with N2Growth for their COO hiring needs.

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The Relationship Between Startups And VCs

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Bocconi University aims to plug that gap and explores the role VCs play in the M&A market. revenues, net income, or EBITDA).” This is because VCs have experience and repeat participation in the M&A market and pre-existing relationships between buyers and VCs further reduce the need for earnouts.

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The Global Innovation 1000 (2011): Why Culture is Key

First Friday Book Synopsis

Tom Stewart is Booz & Company’s Chief Marketing & Knowledge Officer. In a recent email update, he asks several intriguing questions: Are there CEOs anywhere in the world who want their companies to become less innovative? Is anyone calling on employees to do a better job of thinking inside the box?

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

What if concentrated market power of a few companies in an industry has made these companies more profitable than usual? I have worked on research that has found that a strong company culture is associated with lower levels of myopic decision making, better productivity, and innovation. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Harvard Business Review

But analysts are judging EBITDA, P/E ratios, quarterly growth, and cashflows – which don’t always correlate with long-term value creation. Ultimately, high-risk venture capital investors need to be rewarded, ideally with high returns, for an ecosystem of innovation to be sustainable.